How is this different than the proton therapy that has been in the US for several years? Mainly for prostate cancer?
Loma Linda University in California has been wooing this for twenty years, I had some treatment for Schwannoma but had to have radiation ten years later.
“stopping the radiation from spilling over into surrounding healthy tissue.”
That would be the holy grail of radiotherapy.
I know, from hard family experience, that radiation can do wonders at killing cancer... but the collateral damage can be lethal to the patient.
“..Unlike traditional radiotherapy (which uses photons)..”
definitely not photons...
Does it work for cancers that have metastasize?
Does it work for blood cancers?
PSU-Hershey, John’s Hopkins, UPenn Med and many other have had *proton therapy* for years. Is there a difference?
“...has just arrived in Spain...”
So, did the aliens 👽 drop it off, or what?
This works well for all the cancer you can “see” with imaging. What happens to stray cancer cells that you cannot see, perhaps those lurking in lymphatic tissue or elsewhere?